Cartoons of the day: Michael Sam and the NFL

University of Missouri football player Michael Sam announced in interviews last weekend that he is gay. Expected to be chosen in this year’s NFL draft, Sam would be the first openly gay athlete in the four major U.S. sports. Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich says Sam is going to break through a significant barrier, while Joe Heller suggests bigots are worried he’ll end up on their team.

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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